August 14, 2024 • 32 mins
Las Vegas was hit with a 4.4 earthquake last night / Whiparound: How many hotel rooms are in Vegas? // WHIP answer 151K! Car insurance in CA is skyrocketing. // Tim reviews the Golden Bachelorette men and their fun facts. // Famous Amos founder Wally Amos passes away at 88.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's KFI AM six forty and you're listening to the
Conway Show on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It is the Conway Show, all right, dig dong, everybody, Eh,
we survive another day.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Look at that without a major, major earthquake, and everybody's
talking about it. You know, when is the big one coming?
And we talked to doctor Lucy, doctor Lucy.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Jones and me and we agree.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I mean, doctor Jones and myself are two you know,
specialists when it comes to earthquakes. She's studying more, but
I live through more of them, so Ying Yang ding Dong.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I have more experience in earthquakes than she does, that's
for sure. I was here during the seventy one, I
was here during the eighty seven, I was here during
the ninety four.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I've been here, I've been around, I've.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Been through all these earthquakes, and so I have a
little more experience than she does.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
But she has a little more knowledge than I do.
So I make a good team.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
And she came out with us and we both agree
as earthquake specialists that when the big one hits, you
will not ask somebody if this is the big one,
nobody will say, hey, is this the big one? Not
one person in LA will say that, Not one Hey.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Is this the big one?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
No one else going to say that.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It'll be free of that statement that day because everybody
will know instantly, Oh, this.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Is what they were talking about.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
So we've got to relax though, even though a lot
of people say it's on the way again. How many
people do you know that were injured in an accent
an earthquake?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I know zero. No, that's not true. I know what.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
My brother's hurt his foot in the ninety four earthquake.
So I know one guy who cut his foot during
an earthquake.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
One guy.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I don't know anybody who's been injured. Othered my brother
who was living with at the time, and it was
sort of my fault. But it's long story. I don't
know anybody who's ever died in an earthquake. As a
matter of fact, you hear some pretty good success stories.
There was a buddy of mine who used to live
up in Studio City up in the hills, guy named
Jeff Warnick, one of my favorite guys in the world. Man,
(02:18):
it was devastating when he passed away. I was really bummed.
Out and I still think about him every single day.
Jeff Warnick when that ninety four quake hit, he used
to live up in the hills and he was on
the south side of the street and one of those
streets that go east west.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
He was on the south side. He was on the
hill side in bedrock.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
But the street, the houses across him from him were
on stilts, and you see him up in the hills
all the time off Beverly Glen, Coldwater Laurel Canyon on
the other side of the hill, those big steel metal
poles that hold the house up.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Well, there was a house across the.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Street from him, and there was a ninety two year
old stroke victim that just came back from Cedar Sinai
after being in Cedar Sinai for one month. Came back
to the house that day in what was it February?
I think it was February. Wasn't it February? It wasn't
Was it January fourteenth? January seventeenth? I think I think
(03:17):
it's January seventeenth. So on January sixteenth he comes back,
or January seventeenth he comes back, I think it was
the sixteenth comes back to the house dropped off by
some kind of ambulance shuttle service in his home for
the first time in a month. I think he was
eighty nine years old, seventeenth seventeenth January seventeenth. So he's
(03:37):
in his house for one day, less than a day.
The earthquake kids his stilts on his house buckle who
and the whole house tumbles down behind Arts Delhi. The
entire house comes down. Gets who survived? The eighty nine
year old guy, he survived that. In the hospital for
(04:01):
a month with a radical stroke. He comes home his house,
you know, goes from Mulholland to now you know he's
washing dishes at Arts Deli and survives. Sir vives that quick.
So that's inspirational. Look, we're gonna have it whether you
(04:23):
like it or not. You may not be here. You
might decide, you know, you got to pack up your
house and move out. But I hope that it doesn't
happen during the Olympics. That's my big hope that when
the big one happened happens. I hope we all survive,
but I hope it doesn't happen during the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Can you imagine that?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Oh no, now, I'm gonna think about it all the
way up till the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Unless we have it before that's possible. But if we
don't have it before the Olympics, we're gonna have a
million or two million people in this city that have
come into this town to see the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That's what I guess.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
They will get the quintessential La experience.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Oh yeah, no, for sure, yeah, but they guess within
you know, in that six month period, you know, three
months leading up to it in the Olympics, then two
three months afterwards. In that period, we'll have one to
two million people come into town to participate or see
the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
But Krozier, that's not it.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
We're also going to be in full summer swing and
summer tourism, which is all It's already hard to get
a hotel room in the summer in Los Angeles. You know,
if you go to Disneyland or Dotsbury Farm, might be
a Magic Mountain, Universal Studios, it's tough to get.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
A room anyway. Yeah, and now we're adding a million
or two million people.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
And if the big one hits, oh boy, oh wowly
bad vibes all right, Vegas had an earthquake. What's going
on in Vegas?
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Four point four earthquake hitting the Las Vegas Valley tonight.
According to USGS, QUAI hit about eight about four miles
northwest of Indian Springs, Nevada. The quake was five point
eight miles deep. Indian Springs is home to Creach Air
Force Base, is forty five miles northwest of the Las
Vegas Strip. There were no immediate reports of any injuries
(06:14):
or damage, as you'd expect of a quake of this size,
but it was felt in a wide area of Nevada.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Oh man, all right, let's do a whip around, all right,
a quick whip around.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, I guess we're gonna do it. Let's do a
quick one.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
How many Las Vegas is the king the capital of
hotel rooms in the United States of America. It might
be in the entire world, I'm not sure about that,
but in the United States of America there are there's
not a town that has more hotel rooms than Las Vegas.
How many hotel rooms are in Las Vegas? Oh, my god,
(06:48):
step oosh.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Fifty thousand, fifty thousands, Like, why are you asking me this?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
All right?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Fifty thousand crouch I'll go quartermill one five a right, one,
one hundred and twenty five thousand, quarter mil oh, quarter million, yeah,
one hundred.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Two fifty Sorry, let me say two fifty.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Sorry, I was thinking something else, all right, two hundred
fifty thousand, All.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Right, BELLYO, two hundred thousand, two.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Hundred thousand, hotel rooms, Angel Martinez.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Five hundred thousand, do here.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Two, I'm gonna go two point seven million. Jesus Christ.
That was in Nernie drop. That wasn't me doing that?
All right? The actual retail answer when we come back.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Oh okay, all right, all right, look I gotta do that.
I've got you. I don't do enough teases. I'm sorry.
You can look it up if you want. Don't get pissed,
all right, just come back, please, I'm asking you. Just
come back. I'll tell you when to come back. We'll
have a lot more fun. Don't get mad, don't I
(08:07):
see you guys in your car. Don't get angry, don't
get mad, don't get mad.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Just come back.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
I'm gonna have a lot more fun.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
We'll have a lot more fun. And I'm not gonna
do this to you anymore.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
Today you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
How many hotel rooms does Las Vegas have? All right,
let's recap stuff. Usha said fifty thousand, Brozer two hundred
and fifty thousand, Belly O two hundred thousand, Angel a
cool half million, and the Duke two point seven billion
hotel rooms.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Isn't that right? What do you say? I said? Million? Oh,
well you might as well just say million. Go for it, right, Okay,
my losses? Last weekend? You did you stay in one
of these hotel rooms? I was at the Venetian? Oh
you did? Okay?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
All right, So other than that hotel room, there are
one hundred and fifty four thousand, six hundred and sixty
one other hotel rooms. One hundred and fifty four thousand,
six hundred and sixty two hotel rooms. That means Bellio
nailed it.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yay, yay, BILLYO got the closest. No one, you got
the closest. You were within.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Forty six forty five thousand, three hundred and.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Twenty eight. That's pretty eight close. It's pretty close. Yeah,
you're pretty close.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
But how many hotel rooms are in a city where
the closest person guessing misses it by nearly one hundred
thousand rooms. That's a lot one hundred and fifty four thousand,
six hundred and sixty two rooms, according to a website
called Statistica.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I believe that's who has it out. Yeah one.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
As of February of twenty twenty four, Las Vegas has
one hundred and fifty six hundred and sixty two hotel rooms,
which is more than enough to house the entire population
of Guam and Granada. And it's an increase from one
hundred and fifty thousand in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Well, and today the Mirage sign was taken down, so
you got to subtract because that hotel shut down.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Oh yes, oh then maybe Belli, Oh you lost, you're
the winner.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Oh no, you're the winner.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah okay, sorry sorry, not like the bronze medal and gymnastics.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Sometimes we got to take it back.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
The MGM's Signature two hotel opened up last month.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh Bellio, you're back.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
You're back with your bronze award. It's a ding don congratulations,
thank you. All right, let's talk about car insurance. I
know people like talking about that. It is going through
the roof. We used to pay twenty four hundred bucks
a month. I'm twenty four hund bucks a year for
auto insurance and now I'm paying eleven thousand, five hundred
(11:06):
a year for auto insurance. And I don't know how
I'm affording it, And I don't know how you're affording
it either.
Speaker 9 (11:14):
Online insurance agency and price comparerinsurify dot com, partially funded
by insurers, says car insurance premiums that increase last year
twenty four percent will do the same by the end
of this year forty eight percent in all nationwide.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
How about that car insurance up forty eight percent?
Speaker 9 (11:35):
California could hit fifty four percent.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Oh that's good news. Fifty four percent more this year
than last year or two years ago.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
Insurance agents are caught between insurers ever increasing rates and
the customers ever decrease.
Speaker 10 (11:48):
It completely shut down for any new business this year
in California. So closed completely and for those that are
open for one of our careers only allows us to
write two new accounts per month.
Speaker 9 (11:59):
We are.
Speaker 10 (12:01):
The worst homeowners insurance crisis ever in California. Currently, with
no end in sight.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
Only one company out of the seven Schafer uses will
write new auto policies as before.
Speaker 10 (12:13):
I've had clients tell me they're ready to move out
of California because of the cost of insurance.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
We came to mash Gas in Orrenda, a place that
always saves consumers on money and where consumer conscious people shop.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Well, what is it called mash gas?
Speaker 9 (12:28):
We came to mash Gas.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Mash Gas. Where is that in Orrenda Arenda? Never heard
of that, Never have no idea where that car insurance?
Speaker 11 (12:36):
I actually lost my homeowners and car insurance last year
from a company and I had to go look for
insurance and I was able to get insurance and I'm
very happy with it, but it is costing you more money.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 11 (12:51):
The Department of Insurance is not controlling them at all,
and I swear they're in on it because they don't
really care.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
That's why so many people are moving out of California.
Speaker 11 (12:57):
These companies are just going to force us out.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
And to my surprises, I don't write a lot of
business in those states. The auto insurance previous weren't any less.
Perhaps they were even more than what they were paying
in California.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
That's so horrible, man, that's terrible.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
Insurer say the California Department of Insurance does not give
them the rates they need, resulting in policy cancelations. Now
the department is giving me okay. Safeco recently gained approval
for a twenty five percent rate increase starting next week.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
That's great, that's great.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
The people we elect to go to Sacramento, and we
send them up to Sacramento, they get in bed with
the insurance companies, and the insurance companies say, hey, can
we raise your California's insurance by twenty four percent? And
the people are supposed to represent on and say, sure,
go ahead, why not you guys donate to me, and
you'll donate to me again. And the people live in
(13:50):
California are well, they're not that bright, you know, they
don't see how it works. So yeah, go ahead and
load it up another twenty four percent.
Speaker 10 (13:58):
The Department of Insurance so is letting the insurance companies
catch up.
Speaker 9 (14:02):
Insurers say high tech cars are much more expensive to replace.
Repair costs are up twenty percent in the last year.
Technicians are in short supply. More extreme fires, floods, and
storms cause higher losses. Auto theftists up.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait, let's go back
here for a second.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Wait, we're paying for that.
Speaker 9 (14:21):
More extreme fires, floods, and storms cause higher losses.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
All right, Okay, so we're paying more insurance because people
live in the mountains.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Because I don't.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
My house getting wiped out, our whole block getting wiped
out is pretty slim, you knowause I live in the
flats and the fire department get there pretty quick put
it out. But the people live up in the mountains
and the hills. They're the ones that home after home
after home. We've seen that before gets destroyed, and so
their insurance rates are subsidized by us living in the
valley flats.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Okay, well, that's that's fun.
Speaker 9 (14:54):
I guess more extreme fires, floods, and storms cause higher losses.
Auto theftists up. Post pandemic drivers are more aggressive.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Wait a minute, auto theft is up?
Speaker 9 (15:04):
Auto theftist up?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I read that that crime is down. This guy must
have his stats wrong.
Speaker 9 (15:10):
Auto theftists up.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
That must be from the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
Post pandemic drivers are more aggressive with deaths.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I agree with that.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
Post pandemic drivers are more aggressive.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Yes, you know what I see a lot now is
a guy getting into the left hand lane and then
going around everybody, not turning left, but just going straight
around everybody and back into the straight lanes.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I see it every single day every day.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
And I see people get into the far right like
they're going to turn right, and they go straight and
they just cut everybody off. I see it every single
day every day. And that's the a hole is out there,
and that's what we're paying for. All right, Well, what
do we do?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I don't know the answer. I'm just giving you the news.
You guys got to come up with the answers. I'm
not the answer man. I'm the news guy.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
A sixty.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
It is The Conway Show. All right, Ding dong, we're
back together again. The Golden Bachelor is gonna start, I'm sorry,
the Golden Bachelorette, and it's gonna be a bunch of guys,
twenty four men.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
And this one woman.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Her name is Joan Vericos vains Vasso, who kind of
an odd nickname, but she's going with it. And twenty
four men are gonna try to, h I don't know,
get into her, depends what the hell?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Too much?
Speaker 5 (16:38):
She was the one. For anybody who watched The Golden
Bachelor last year earlier this year, she was the one
that left a few weeks in that he really looked
like it looked like he had made his decision already,
just a couple weeks in, and she had to leave
for like family reasons, like a daughter had a kid
or something like that. And she's she's now the Golden Bachelorette.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Oh, I thought she was the one that left later on,
like we seven, because she had to go back to hospice.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Two.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Rough could have been ture Rough. All right.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Bob is one of the Bachelor's. He's sixty six, he's great,
he's from Portland. He's put quite a life together for himself.
He's a retired videographer and now that everybody has their
own phone, I'm that sort of hiss dried up. I
imagine he's not up on the latest video equipment because
(17:33):
he's they're picturing him with a big VHS camera on
his shoulder. So that's one that's Bob. And then we
have another guy here from Marina del Rey. How about that?
Another guy from Marina del Ray is a chiropractor and
he says, uh, chiropractors. Oh, I see he said this
(17:56):
chiropractor is an avid surfer.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Okay, that's a plus.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Again, he's ready to see if him and Varicos Vans
have a totally tubular chemistry already using her nickname. That's good,
that means closeness.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
How many of these guys still have a Blockbuster card
in their wallets.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I wonder if they're all savers too, they went all
through the depression. Another guy from Rancho Palos Verdez. He's
a portfolio manager, so he's got some bucks. No chicks,
just money, that's his slogan. Charles k is very proud
the work he's done building homes in rural Nicaragua.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
So we'll see if we'll see if Joan.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Goes with the surfing doctor or the guy who's in
Nicaragua six months of the year building homes.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Think no direction that's going.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
And then we have another guy here hometown Philadelphia. His
name is Charles and he's a retired financial analyst. If
Charles could see anyone in court during his golden years, sorry,
if Charles could see anyone in concert during his golden years,
he'd love to see Britney Spears perform one day.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
That's odd.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
That's a weird.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Sixty five year old guy.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Sixty six year old guy wants to see Britney Spears
in concerts. That is weird man. All right, mount he's done.
And then this guy named Chalk Chock chalk or Chuck,
Chuck with an O, chuck with a U. I don't know,
Chuck with an O, chalk with an O. I imagine
(19:42):
that's sort of the end of that conversation after a while.
I'm chalk with an ol. Get out what his fun fact?
Because Hays have fun facts. His guilty pleasure is shopping
for clothes to go to a Britney Spears concert.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Oh no, that's the other dude.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
His guilty players is shopping and he can't resist a
good sale. His favorite slogan is I shop till I
drop Right now, that's what it says again, he loves shopping.
Here's another one. Guy from New York West Babylon. He's
(20:21):
a contractor. Christopher loves that his birthday is on Christmas Eve. Oh,
my mom's birthday is on Christmas Eve. I don't know
why he likes that. What didn't work out for her?
It's a horrible date of her birthday. And that's it.
That's a wrap. That's the only thing he's proud of.
And the only thing he says in his bio is
that he's born on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
It's all downhill from there.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I don't know what else he's got going on in
his life. Another guy from Naples, Florida. He's a private investor.
Dan loves to sing, not just in but just not
in public. All right, Okay, this poor man is going
to have to perform on a karaoke date one day,
isn't he?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Question Mark? That's what they said about this guy, David
sixty eight.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
All right, here's another chap from Austin, Texas. He's a rancher.
His name is Gary, he's sixty five. David's hero is
his ninety one year old mother. Wow, and this says,
dang it? How am I getting misty over that fun fact?
(21:31):
So this guy who hasn't moved out of the house
yet at sixty eight, that might be a problem. Here's
another dude from Palm Desert, California. Local guy named Gil.
Gil's retired finance executive. Gary is the goodson of his
legendary Oh I'm sorry, Tina Turner. He loves Tina Turner.
He's very musically gifted, and he says that of himself,
(21:55):
by the way, red flag, red flag, and with a
beautif singing voice and killer dance moves. And that's what
Gil said about himself. I think it's Gil or Gary.
That's Gary, now Gil.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Gary, the godsend of Tina Turner.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Oh is that right? I believe?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
So wow, all right, we'll pick that guy. Here's another one, Gil.
He's sixty. He's from Mission, VA. Who another local guy.
He's an educator. Gil's favorite book is The Bridges of
Madison County and he's just a romantic, very romantic guy.
Here's another guy in a sweater. It's not a really
(22:36):
good look, nice sweater, button down, thick cardigan sweater.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah, thick, thick sweater.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
So he's got some, you know, problems with cooling his
own body. Greg sixty four. He's from Florida, a retired
university vice president. He wears flip flops ninety percent of
the time, all right, and then the other ten percent
of the time he has to convince people he's not homeless.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
So his name is guy good for you? All right?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Then another dude here, from Reno, Reno, Nevada. Jack comes
from Reno emergency room. Doctor er doctor, all right, that's
a cool deal. He's planning to hike mountains this fall,
and he plans to be flexible, all right, And his
potential fiance may have an opinion on this, that's all
(23:35):
it said.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
So flexible in the yoga sense or in the time sense.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I think flexible in when he checks into a hospice,
I think.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
But that's Jack.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Then we go to Jonathan sixty one out of Chicago.
He's a caterer and Jack is sitting in the front
row at an Elvis concert in Chicago in nineteen seventy seven. Wow,
right before Elvis died. That's kind of a cool brag.
And so he loves Elvis Presley updated reference there, all right.
(24:12):
Then another chap here is Jordan. He's from Iowa, Oakland, Iowa.
He's a shipping consultant and he toyed with the idea
of being a bodybuilder, but his only drawback is he
hated lifting weights, so it says, and then another one
(24:33):
guy at Chicago's sales manager. These are all contestants on
the Bachelorette. The Golden Batchelorette. Jordan misses the days when
visitors would stop by unannounced. That's another red flag. Guy
wants people stopping by the house unannounced. I don't know
how you do that anymore, but some people do it.
Just listen to Manuscalco. He's got a great bit of
(24:55):
that about answering the door back.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Then in today, maybe we'll play it. We got back.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
That's great, Sebastian Maniscalco, What a funny dude.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Mayo from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Hey, we got bad news that Famous Amos has passed away.
I think his real name is Wally Is that? I
think that's true, right, Wally Amos. He's passed away, and
I just talked about him, I think last Thursday on
KF five and I got a Famous am As story
for you. But first, what happened to Famous Amos? Wally Amos?
(25:30):
How did this happen?
Speaker 12 (25:31):
Wally Amos, the founder of Famous catt Almighty?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
They're going with Amos. Guys, never heard that name before.
Speaker 12 (25:40):
Famous Amos Wally Amos, the founder of Famous Amos Cookies.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yeah, same pronunciation in the name and the cookie.
Speaker 12 (25:51):
Wally Amos, the founder of Famous Amos Cookies cott almighty?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Doesn't it like the news director go hey, Bob, look,
it's not Famus Amos And then it's Famous Amos Cookies.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
What's going on with you?
Speaker 12 (26:06):
Wally Amos, the founder of Famous Amos Cookies, has died.
Amos was a talent agent with William Morris in Los
Angeles and then started his cookie empire.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
All right, yeah, with.
Speaker 12 (26:17):
A small shop on Sunset Boulevard in nineteen seventy five.
His bite sized cookies were hit and became a national sensation.
He then sold his company in nineteen eighty eight. The
launched other pastry and cookie ventures in the nineteen nineties.
Amos died in Hollywood at the age of eighty eight,
WHI rather, due to complications from dementia. He is survived
(26:38):
by his wife and four childer.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Maybe it is Famous Amos, I don't know. Maybe that
he changed it for the cookie. That's possible. Is that
Robert Kevans. I don't mean to bust his balls. I
like that, dude, No it is not it's not. Oh
then scrud But I don't I don't know, all right,
but I got a famous Amos story for you. So
back in nineteen seventy five, you may have heard of
(27:01):
the Carabernet Show, right, My dad was on the caraber
Neet Show. And the guest for that week they always
had a guest actor, actress, singer, athlete, whoever it was,
it was Helen Ready.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
And I remember this. I am woman, I am woman.
Hear me roar Helen Ready.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
And my dad came home from rehearsing that day and
he brought these cookies home and he said, yeah, the
guy named Wally Amos bought these cookies, brought these cookies
in and they're unbelievable and we ate them and the
entire bag was gone in like eight seconds.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
And there was something about those cookies. It was spectacular.
And my dad said, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
He was with it William Moores for a while, I
think as an assistant to an agent or an agent,
and he wants he's looking for twenty thousand dollars for
twenty five percent of his company. And my dad didn't
pull the trigger, but Helen Ready did.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Ooh yeah. And he set up shop.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I think his very first shop was on Sunset Boulevard,
and then his second store, I believe was in Tarzana
off Yulanda Street. And I know that because I went
to Portola Junior High and we used to walk after
school to Famous Amous. We'd have to run to get
there because if you walked, the line would be seventy
five kids by the time you got there. And they
were a little expensive, but they were very, very good,
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and it took off for that guy. That guy made
millions and millions and millions. Eventually sold to a big company.
They changed the recipe and it wasn't you know that thrilling?
But when he made the cookies in the bakery on
Sunset I remember stopping by there many many times to
get those cookies. Nothing in the world like fresh, hot,
(28:47):
mini famous Amos cookies.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
It's nice to know that your dad was as good
of a gambler as you are.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
My dad, I could have set up this family for
generations off that deal.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
H And he said not, I don't see it, really.
What do you see?
Speaker 3 (29:02):
The four horse in the third race at Cernina A right,
and they work out. But that's uh, that's a great guy, man.
That guy had a great life. That uh Wally Amos
and his famous Amos cookies.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
That's a cool dude, man, you know we used to
we used to stop by that famous Amos in Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I'm sorry, angel I, I don't want to be a
ballbuster Amos.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
We used to stop by the famous Amos store in
Hollywood and he.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Would be there. He was always there, You're right.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
Yeah, yeah, we'd stop in and get those butterscotch chip cookies.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
They were so good.
Speaker 9 (29:42):
Man.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
If you got there on closing time, he'd just say, hi,
I here, take an extra bag, you know, for yourself.
And he was open late too, So if you're buzzed in,
you know, in Hollywood you can always go to famous
Amos like eleven cook midnight and buy a bag of
Famous am And.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Prior to him in the store and all that words there,
cookie stores live. I mean, it's so it's everywhere now.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yeah. Everyone saw the cookies out of Fields.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Yeah yeah, and were they were cookie stores popular prior to.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I had never seen one before him, never ever knew one.
I'm sure they had when the mall remember the mall
cookies that were they smelled good.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
That looked like they were looked like the size of records.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
Yeah, yeah, missus Fields cookies.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
And they always smell great, but then you taste your
like it's just missing something here. Well, Famous Amos didn't
miss He was the best.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
He was the best man.
Speaker 11 (30:40):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Just those cookies, the smell of them. You know, they're small.
The chocolate chips were huge. They were warm and they
were great. And he sold really cold milk to Oh
what a time, What a time.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
To be alive.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
I remember him on Taxi. Oh there was an episode
that where yeah there was and then there was an
episode where Loca was trying to make he made cookies
and it turns out I think the secret agreed they
found out later on. I think it was pot and
Famous Amos, while Amos dropped down from the ceiling as
(31:15):
like some little spirit and told him that you don't
know what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Yeah, yeah, that was That's what I remember him from.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
So he played himself, Yes, that's cool.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
He also had a guest spot on the Office in
the last season. Oh I didn't know that, Yeah, playing
himself again. Really, he was like the provider of the
cookies and snacks over.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
And lost their minds. He was the best gotten that
far in the show.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Have you Yeah, no, I you know what when When
Mike Scott left, I sort of bailed. I bailed to Yeah,
I said goodbye to the show, but Michael Scott did,
I didn't. I couldn't really get into it after that.
It was a little bit of a slog, but yeah,
it was weird. It was like, you know, it's missing
the star of the show. You know, it's like Roseanne.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
They found some footing as time went on, but it
was just never the same. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah, like McLean Stephen and left Mash Yes, you know,
you're like, that's why you never saw Mike Brady. If
Mike Brady left, the Brady Bunch done, absolutely done. And
and I couldn't get into it. After Michael Scott split,
I walked out the door with him. I felt sad
when I left too. Never really watched the end of
that series.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Could you watch the end of it, Steph Fosh, Oh yeah, yeah,
it was any good.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Yeah, I mean, like he said, it's a little bit,
it struggles a little bit, but the finale was really good.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
They did a good job with that. It was really
I saw a little bit of the finale that was good. Yeah, yeah,
I saw a little bit of that, all right, Famous
amos No longer with us man what a guy I
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Speaker 1 (32:38):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
It is the Conway Show, all right, dig dong, everybody, Eh,
we survive another day.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Look at that without a major, major earthquake, and everybody's
talking about it. You know, when is the big one coming?
And we talked to doctor Lucy, doctor Lucy.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Jones and me and we agree.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I mean, doctor Jones and myself are two you know,
specialists when it comes to earthquakes. She's studying more, but
I live through more of them, so Ying Yang ding Dong.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I have more experience in earthquakes than she does, that's
for sure. I was here during the seventy one, I
was here during the eighty seven, I was here during
the ninety four.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I've been here, I've been around, I've.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Been through all these earthquakes, and so I have a
little more experience than she does.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
But she has a little more knowledge than I do.
So I make a good team.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
And she came out with us and we both agree
as earthquake specialists that when the big one hits, you
will not ask somebody if this is the big one,
nobody will say, hey, is this the big one? Not
one person in LA will say that, Not one Hey.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Is this the big one?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
No one else going to say that.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
It'll be free of that statement that day because everybody
will know instantly, Oh, this.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Is what they were talking about.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
So we've got to relax though, even though a lot
of people say it's on the way again. How many
people do you know that were injured in an accent
an earthquake?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I know zero. No, that's not true. I know what.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
My brother's hurt his foot in the ninety four earthquake.
So I know one guy who cut his foot during
an earthquake.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
One guy.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I don't know anybody who's been injured. Othered my brother
who was living with at the time, and it was
sort of my fault. But it's long story. I don't
know anybody who's ever died in an earthquake. As a
matter of fact, you hear some pretty good success stories.
There was a buddy of mine who used to live
up in Studio City up in the hills, guy named
Jeff Warnick, one of my favorite guys in the world. Man,
(02:18):
it was devastating when he passed away. I was really bummed.
Out and I still think about him every single day.
Jeff Warnick when that ninety four quake hit, he used
to live up in the hills and he was on
the south side of the street and one of those
streets that go east west.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
He was on the south side. He was on the
hill side in bedrock.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
But the street, the houses across him from him were
on stilts, and you see him up in the hills
all the time off Beverly Glen, Coldwater Laurel Canyon on
the other side of the hill, those big steel metal
poles that hold the house up.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Well, there was a house across the.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Street from him, and there was a ninety two year
old stroke victim that just came back from Cedar Sinai
after being in Cedar Sinai for one month. Came back
to the house that day in what was it February?
I think it was February. Wasn't it February? It wasn't
Was it January fourteenth? January seventeenth? I think I think
(03:17):
it's January seventeenth. So on January sixteenth he comes back,
or January seventeenth he comes back, I think it was
the sixteenth comes back to the house dropped off by
some kind of ambulance shuttle service in his home for
the first time in a month. I think he was
eighty nine years old, seventeenth seventeenth January seventeenth. So he's
(03:37):
in his house for one day, less than a day.
The earthquake kids his stilts on his house buckle who
and the whole house tumbles down behind Arts Delhi. The
entire house comes down. Gets who survived? The eighty nine
year old guy, he survived that. In the hospital for
(04:01):
a month with a radical stroke. He comes home his house,
you know, goes from Mulholland to now you know he's
washing dishes at Arts Deli and survives. Sir vives that quick.
So that's inspirational. Look, we're gonna have it whether you
(04:23):
like it or not. You may not be here. You
might decide, you know, you got to pack up your
house and move out. But I hope that it doesn't
happen during the Olympics. That's my big hope that when
the big one happened happens. I hope we all survive,
but I hope it doesn't happen during the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Can you imagine that?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Oh no, now, I'm gonna think about it all the
way up till the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Unless we have it before that's possible. But if we
don't have it before the Olympics, we're gonna have a
million or two million people in this city that have
come into this town to see the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
That's what I guess.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
They will get the quintessential La experience.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Oh yeah, no, for sure, yeah, but they guess within
you know, in that six month period, you know, three
months leading up to it in the Olympics, then two
three months afterwards. In that period, we'll have one to
two million people come into town to participate or see
the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
But Krozier, that's not it.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
We're also going to be in full summer swing and
summer tourism, which is all It's already hard to get
a hotel room in the summer in Los Angeles. You know,
if you go to Disneyland or Dotsbury Farm, might be
a Magic Mountain, Universal Studios, it's tough to get.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
A room anyway. Yeah, and now we're adding a million
or two million people.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
And if the big one hits, oh boy, oh wowly
bad vibes all right, Vegas had an earthquake. What's going
on in Vegas?
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Four point four earthquake hitting the Las Vegas Valley tonight.
According to USGS, QUAI hit about eight about four miles
northwest of Indian Springs, Nevada. The quake was five point
eight miles deep. Indian Springs is home to Creach Air
Force Base, is forty five miles northwest of the Las
Vegas Strip. There were no immediate reports of any injuries
(06:14):
or damage, as you'd expect of a quake of this size,
but it was felt in a wide area of Nevada.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Oh man, all right, let's do a whip around, all right,
a quick whip around.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, I guess we're gonna do it. Let's do a
quick one.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
How many Las Vegas is the king the capital of
hotel rooms in the United States of America. It might
be in the entire world, I'm not sure about that,
but in the United States of America there are there's
not a town that has more hotel rooms than Las Vegas.
How many hotel rooms are in Las Vegas? Oh, my god,
(06:48):
step oosh.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Fifty thousand, fifty thousands, Like, why are you asking me this?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
All right?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Fifty thousand crouch I'll go quartermill one five a right, one,
one hundred and twenty five thousand, quarter mil oh, quarter million, yeah,
one hundred.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Two fifty Sorry, let me say two fifty.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Sorry, I was thinking something else, all right, two hundred
fifty thousand, All.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Right, BELLYO, two hundred thousand, two.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Hundred thousand, hotel rooms, Angel Martinez.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Five hundred thousand, do here.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Two, I'm gonna go two point seven million. Jesus Christ.
That was in Nernie drop. That wasn't me doing that?
All right? The actual retail answer when we come back.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Oh okay, all right, all right, look I gotta do that.
I've got you. I don't do enough teases. I'm sorry.
You can look it up if you want. Don't get pissed,
all right, just come back, please, I'm asking you. Just
come back. I'll tell you when to come back. We'll
have a lot more fun. Don't get mad, don't I
(08:07):
see you guys in your car. Don't get angry, don't
get mad, don't get mad.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Just come back.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
I'm gonna have a lot more fun.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
We'll have a lot more fun. And I'm not gonna
do this to you anymore.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
Today you're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
How many hotel rooms does Las Vegas have? All right,
let's recap stuff. Usha said fifty thousand, Brozer two hundred
and fifty thousand, Belly O two hundred thousand, Angel a
cool half million, and the Duke two point seven billion
hotel rooms.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Isn't that right? What do you say? I said? Million? Oh,
well you might as well just say million. Go for it, right, Okay,
my losses? Last weekend? You did you stay in one
of these hotel rooms? I was at the Venetian? Oh
you did? Okay?
Speaker 3 (08:59):
All right, So other than that hotel room, there are
one hundred and fifty four thousand, six hundred and sixty
one other hotel rooms. One hundred and fifty four thousand,
six hundred and sixty two hotel rooms. That means Bellio
nailed it.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yay, yay, BILLYO got the closest. No one, you got
the closest. You were within.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Forty six forty five thousand, three hundred and.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Twenty eight. That's pretty eight close. It's pretty close. Yeah,
you're pretty close.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
But how many hotel rooms are in a city where
the closest person guessing misses it by nearly one hundred
thousand rooms. That's a lot one hundred and fifty four thousand,
six hundred and sixty two rooms, according to a website
called Statistica.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I believe that's who has it out. Yeah one.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
As of February of twenty twenty four, Las Vegas has
one hundred and fifty six hundred and sixty two hotel rooms,
which is more than enough to house the entire population
of Guam and Granada. And it's an increase from one
hundred and fifty thousand in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Well, and today the Mirage sign was taken down, so
you got to subtract because that hotel shut down.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Oh yes, oh then maybe Belli, Oh you lost, you're
the winner.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Oh no, you're the winner.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah okay, sorry sorry, not like the bronze medal and gymnastics.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Sometimes we got to take it back.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
The MGM's Signature two hotel opened up last month.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh Bellio, you're back.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
You're back with your bronze award. It's a ding don congratulations,
thank you. All right, let's talk about car insurance. I
know people like talking about that. It is going through
the roof. We used to pay twenty four hundred bucks
a month. I'm twenty four hund bucks a year for
auto insurance and now I'm paying eleven thousand, five hundred
(11:06):
a year for auto insurance. And I don't know how
I'm affording it, And I don't know how you're affording
it either.
Speaker 9 (11:14):
Online insurance agency and price comparerinsurify dot com, partially funded
by insurers, says car insurance premiums that increase last year
twenty four percent will do the same by the end
of this year forty eight percent in all nationwide.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
How about that car insurance up forty eight percent?
Speaker 9 (11:35):
California could hit fifty four percent.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Oh that's good news. Fifty four percent more this year
than last year or two years ago.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
Insurance agents are caught between insurers ever increasing rates and
the customers ever decrease.
Speaker 10 (11:48):
It completely shut down for any new business this year
in California. So closed completely and for those that are
open for one of our careers only allows us to
write two new accounts per month.
Speaker 9 (11:59):
We are.
Speaker 10 (12:01):
The worst homeowners insurance crisis ever in California. Currently, with
no end in sight.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
Only one company out of the seven Schafer uses will
write new auto policies as before.
Speaker 10 (12:13):
I've had clients tell me they're ready to move out
of California because of the cost of insurance.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
We came to mash Gas in Orrenda, a place that
always saves consumers on money and where consumer conscious people shop.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Well, what is it called mash gas?
Speaker 9 (12:28):
We came to mash Gas.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Mash Gas. Where is that in Orrenda Arenda? Never heard
of that, Never have no idea where that car insurance?
Speaker 11 (12:36):
I actually lost my homeowners and car insurance last year
from a company and I had to go look for
insurance and I was able to get insurance and I'm
very happy with it, but it is costing you more money.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 11 (12:51):
The Department of Insurance is not controlling them at all,
and I swear they're in on it because they don't
really care.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
That's why so many people are moving out of California.
Speaker 11 (12:57):
These companies are just going to force us out.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
And to my surprises, I don't write a lot of
business in those states. The auto insurance previous weren't any less.
Perhaps they were even more than what they were paying
in California.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
That's so horrible, man, that's terrible.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
Insurer say the California Department of Insurance does not give
them the rates they need, resulting in policy cancelations. Now
the department is giving me okay. Safeco recently gained approval
for a twenty five percent rate increase starting next week.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
That's great, that's great.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
The people we elect to go to Sacramento, and we
send them up to Sacramento, they get in bed with
the insurance companies, and the insurance companies say, hey, can
we raise your California's insurance by twenty four percent? And
the people are supposed to represent on and say, sure,
go ahead, why not you guys donate to me, and
you'll donate to me again. And the people live in
(13:50):
California are well, they're not that bright, you know, they
don't see how it works. So yeah, go ahead and
load it up another twenty four percent.
Speaker 10 (13:58):
The Department of Insurance so is letting the insurance companies
catch up.
Speaker 9 (14:02):
Insurers say high tech cars are much more expensive to replace.
Repair costs are up twenty percent in the last year.
Technicians are in short supply. More extreme fires, floods, and
storms cause higher losses. Auto theftists up.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait, let's go back
here for a second.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Wait, we're paying for that.
Speaker 9 (14:21):
More extreme fires, floods, and storms cause higher losses.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
All right, Okay, so we're paying more insurance because people
live in the mountains.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Because I don't.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
My house getting wiped out, our whole block getting wiped
out is pretty slim, you knowause I live in the
flats and the fire department get there pretty quick put
it out. But the people live up in the mountains
and the hills. They're the ones that home after home
after home. We've seen that before gets destroyed, and so
their insurance rates are subsidized by us living in the
valley flats.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Okay, well, that's that's fun.
Speaker 9 (14:54):
I guess more extreme fires, floods, and storms cause higher losses.
Auto theftists up. Post pandemic drivers are more aggressive.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Wait a minute, auto theft is up?
Speaker 9 (15:04):
Auto theftist up?
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I read that that crime is down. This guy must
have his stats wrong.
Speaker 9 (15:10):
Auto theftists up.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
That must be from the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
Post pandemic drivers are more aggressive with deaths.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
I agree with that.
Speaker 9 (15:18):
Post pandemic drivers are more aggressive.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Yes, you know what I see a lot now is
a guy getting into the left hand lane and then
going around everybody, not turning left, but just going straight
around everybody and back into the straight lanes.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I see it every single day every day.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
And I see people get into the far right like
they're going to turn right, and they go straight and
they just cut everybody off. I see it every single
day every day. And that's the a hole is out there,
and that's what we're paying for. All right, Well, what
do we do?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I don't know the answer. I'm just giving you the news.
You guys got to come up with the answers. I'm
not the answer man. I'm the news guy.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand from KFI
A sixty.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
It is The Conway Show. All right, Ding dong, we're
back together again. The Golden Bachelor is gonna start, I'm sorry,
the Golden Bachelorette, and it's gonna be a bunch of guys,
twenty four men.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
And this one woman.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Her name is Joan Vericos vains Vasso, who kind of
an odd nickname, but she's going with it. And twenty
four men are gonna try to, h I don't know,
get into her, depends what the hell?
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Too much?
Speaker 5 (16:38):
She was the one. For anybody who watched The Golden
Bachelor last year earlier this year, she was the one
that left a few weeks in that he really looked
like it looked like he had made his decision already,
just a couple weeks in, and she had to leave
for like family reasons, like a daughter had a kid
or something like that. And she's she's now the Golden Bachelorette.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Oh, I thought she was the one that left later on,
like we seven, because she had to go back to hospice.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Two.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Rough could have been ture Rough. All right.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Bob is one of the Bachelor's. He's sixty six, he's great,
he's from Portland. He's put quite a life together for himself.
He's a retired videographer and now that everybody has their
own phone, I'm that sort of hiss dried up. I
imagine he's not up on the latest video equipment because
(17:33):
he's they're picturing him with a big VHS camera on
his shoulder. So that's one that's Bob. And then we
have another guy here from Marina del Rey. How about that?
Another guy from Marina del Ray is a chiropractor and
he says, uh, chiropractors. Oh, I see he said this
(17:56):
chiropractor is an avid surfer.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Okay, that's a plus.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Again, he's ready to see if him and Varicos Vans
have a totally tubular chemistry already using her nickname. That's good,
that means closeness.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
How many of these guys still have a Blockbuster card
in their wallets.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I wonder if they're all savers too, they went all
through the depression. Another guy from Rancho Palos Verdez. He's
a portfolio manager, so he's got some bucks. No chicks,
just money, that's his slogan. Charles k is very proud
the work he's done building homes in rural Nicaragua.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
So we'll see if we'll see if Joan.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Goes with the surfing doctor or the guy who's in
Nicaragua six months of the year building homes.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Think no direction that's going.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
And then we have another guy here hometown Philadelphia. His
name is Charles and he's a retired financial analyst. If
Charles could see anyone in court during his golden years, sorry,
if Charles could see anyone in concert during his golden years,
he'd love to see Britney Spears perform one day.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
That's odd.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
That's a weird.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Sixty five year old guy.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Sixty six year old guy wants to see Britney Spears
in concerts. That is weird man. All right, mount he's done.
And then this guy named Chalk Chock chalk or Chuck,
Chuck with an O, chuck with a U. I don't know,
Chuck with an O, chalk with an O. I imagine
(19:42):
that's sort of the end of that conversation after a while.
I'm chalk with an ol. Get out what his fun fact?
Because Hays have fun facts. His guilty pleasure is shopping
for clothes to go to a Britney Spears concert.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Oh no, that's the other dude.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
His guilty players is shopping and he can't resist a
good sale. His favorite slogan is I shop till I
drop Right now, that's what it says again, he loves shopping.
Here's another one. Guy from New York West Babylon. He's
(20:21):
a contractor. Christopher loves that his birthday is on Christmas Eve. Oh,
my mom's birthday is on Christmas Eve. I don't know
why he likes that. What didn't work out for her?
It's a horrible date of her birthday. And that's it.
That's a wrap. That's the only thing he's proud of.
And the only thing he says in his bio is
that he's born on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
It's all downhill from there.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
I don't know what else he's got going on in
his life. Another guy from Naples, Florida. He's a private investor.
Dan loves to sing, not just in but just not
in public. All right, Okay, this poor man is going
to have to perform on a karaoke date one day,
isn't he?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Question Mark? That's what they said about this guy, David
sixty eight.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
All right, here's another chap from Austin, Texas. He's a rancher.
His name is Gary, he's sixty five. David's hero is
his ninety one year old mother. Wow, and this says,
dang it? How am I getting misty over that fun fact?
(21:31):
So this guy who hasn't moved out of the house
yet at sixty eight, that might be a problem. Here's
another dude from Palm Desert, California. Local guy named Gil.
Gil's retired finance executive. Gary is the goodson of his
legendary Oh I'm sorry, Tina Turner. He loves Tina Turner.
He's very musically gifted, and he says that of himself,
(21:55):
by the way, red flag, red flag, and with a
beautif singing voice and killer dance moves. And that's what
Gil said about himself. I think it's Gil or Gary.
That's Gary, now Gil.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Gary, the godsend of Tina Turner.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Oh is that right? I believe?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
So wow, all right, we'll pick that guy. Here's another one, Gil.
He's sixty. He's from Mission, VA. Who another local guy.
He's an educator. Gil's favorite book is The Bridges of
Madison County and he's just a romantic, very romantic guy.
Here's another guy in a sweater. It's not a really
(22:36):
good look, nice sweater, button down, thick cardigan sweater.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Yeah, thick, thick sweater.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
So he's got some, you know, problems with cooling his
own body. Greg sixty four. He's from Florida, a retired
university vice president. He wears flip flops ninety percent of
the time, all right, and then the other ten percent
of the time he has to convince people he's not homeless.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
So his name is guy good for you? All right?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Then another dude here, from Reno, Reno, Nevada. Jack comes
from Reno emergency room. Doctor er doctor, all right, that's
a cool deal. He's planning to hike mountains this fall,
and he plans to be flexible, all right, And his
potential fiance may have an opinion on this, that's all
(23:35):
it said.
Speaker 7 (23:36):
So flexible in the yoga sense or in the time sense.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
I think flexible in when he checks into a hospice,
I think.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
But that's Jack.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Then we go to Jonathan sixty one out of Chicago.
He's a caterer and Jack is sitting in the front
row at an Elvis concert in Chicago in nineteen seventy seven. Wow,
right before Elvis died. That's kind of a cool brag.
And so he loves Elvis Presley updated reference there, all right.
(24:12):
Then another chap here is Jordan. He's from Iowa, Oakland, Iowa.
He's a shipping consultant and he toyed with the idea
of being a bodybuilder, but his only drawback is he
hated lifting weights, so it says, and then another one
(24:33):
guy at Chicago's sales manager. These are all contestants on
the Bachelorette. The Golden Batchelorette. Jordan misses the days when
visitors would stop by unannounced. That's another red flag. Guy
wants people stopping by the house unannounced. I don't know
how you do that anymore, but some people do it.
Just listen to Manuscalco. He's got a great bit of
(24:55):
that about answering the door back.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Then in today, maybe we'll play it. We got back.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
That's great, Sebastian Maniscalco, What a funny dude.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on de Mayo from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Hey, we got bad news that Famous Amos has passed away.
I think his real name is Wally Is that? I
think that's true, right, Wally Amos. He's passed away, and
I just talked about him, I think last Thursday on
KF five and I got a Famous am As story
for you. But first, what happened to Famous Amos? Wally Amos?
(25:30):
How did this happen?
Speaker 12 (25:31):
Wally Amos, the founder of Famous catt Almighty?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
They're going with Amos. Guys, never heard that name before.
Speaker 12 (25:40):
Famous Amos Wally Amos, the founder of Famous Amos Cookies.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Yeah, same pronunciation in the name and the cookie.
Speaker 12 (25:51):
Wally Amos, the founder of Famous Amos Cookies cott almighty?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Doesn't it like the news director go hey, Bob, look,
it's not Famus Amos And then it's Famous Amos Cookies.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
What's going on with you?
Speaker 12 (26:06):
Wally Amos, the founder of Famous Amos Cookies, has died.
Amos was a talent agent with William Morris in Los
Angeles and then started his cookie empire.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
All right, yeah, with.
Speaker 12 (26:17):
A small shop on Sunset Boulevard in nineteen seventy five.
His bite sized cookies were hit and became a national sensation.
He then sold his company in nineteen eighty eight. The
launched other pastry and cookie ventures in the nineteen nineties.
Amos died in Hollywood at the age of eighty eight,
WHI rather, due to complications from dementia. He is survived
(26:38):
by his wife and four childer.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Maybe it is Famous Amos, I don't know. Maybe that
he changed it for the cookie. That's possible. Is that
Robert Kevans. I don't mean to bust his balls. I
like that, dude, No it is not it's not. Oh
then scrud But I don't I don't know, all right,
but I got a famous Amos story for you. So
back in nineteen seventy five, you may have heard of
(27:01):
the Carabernet Show, right, My dad was on the caraber
Neet Show. And the guest for that week they always
had a guest actor, actress, singer, athlete, whoever it was,
it was Helen Ready.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
And I remember this. I am woman, I am woman.
Hear me roar Helen Ready.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
And my dad came home from rehearsing that day and
he brought these cookies home and he said, yeah, the
guy named Wally Amos bought these cookies, brought these cookies
in and they're unbelievable and we ate them and the
entire bag was gone in like eight seconds.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
And there was something about those cookies. It was spectacular.
And my dad said, yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
He was with it William Moores for a while, I
think as an assistant to an agent or an agent,
and he wants he's looking for twenty thousand dollars for
twenty five percent of his company. And my dad didn't
pull the trigger, but Helen Ready did.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
Ooh yeah. And he set up shop.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I think his very first shop was on Sunset Boulevard,
and then his second store, I believe was in Tarzana
off Yulanda Street. And I know that because I went
to Portola Junior High and we used to walk after
school to Famous Amous. We'd have to run to get
there because if you walked, the line would be seventy
five kids by the time you got there. And they
were a little expensive, but they were very, very good,
(28:26):
and it took off for that guy. That guy made
millions and millions and millions. Eventually sold to a big company.
They changed the recipe and it wasn't you know that thrilling?
But when he made the cookies in the bakery on
Sunset I remember stopping by there many many times to
get those cookies. Nothing in the world like fresh, hot,
(28:47):
mini famous Amos cookies.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
It's nice to know that your dad was as good
of a gambler as you are.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
My dad, I could have set up this family for
generations off that deal.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
H And he said not, I don't see it, really.
What do you see?
Speaker 3 (29:02):
The four horse in the third race at Cernina A right,
and they work out. But that's uh, that's a great guy, man.
That guy had a great life. That uh Wally Amos
and his famous Amos cookies.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
That's a cool dude, man, you know we used to
we used to stop by that famous Amos in Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I'm sorry, angel I, I don't want to be a
ballbuster Amos.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 7 (29:29):
We used to stop by the famous Amos store in
Hollywood and he.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Would be there. He was always there, You're right.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
Yeah, yeah, we'd stop in and get those butterscotch chip cookies.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
They were so good.
Speaker 9 (29:42):
Man.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
If you got there on closing time, he'd just say, hi,
I here, take an extra bag, you know, for yourself.
And he was open late too, So if you're buzzed in,
you know, in Hollywood you can always go to famous
Amos like eleven cook midnight and buy a bag of
Famous am And.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Prior to him in the store and all that words there,
cookie stores live. I mean, it's so it's everywhere now.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Yeah. Everyone saw the cookies out of Fields.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Yeah yeah, and were they were cookie stores popular prior to.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I had never seen one before him, never ever knew one.
I'm sure they had when the mall remember the mall
cookies that were they smelled good.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
That looked like they were looked like the size of records.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
Yeah, yeah, missus Fields cookies.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
And they always smell great, but then you taste your
like it's just missing something here. Well, Famous Amos didn't
miss He was the best.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
He was the best man.
Speaker 11 (30:40):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
Just those cookies, the smell of them. You know, they're small.
The chocolate chips were huge. They were warm and they
were great. And he sold really cold milk to Oh
what a time, What a time.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
To be alive.
Speaker 5 (30:54):
I remember him on Taxi. Oh there was an episode
that where yeah there was and then there was an
episode where Loca was trying to make he made cookies
and it turns out I think the secret agreed they
found out later on. I think it was pot and
Famous Amos, while Amos dropped down from the ceiling as
(31:15):
like some little spirit and told him that you don't
know what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Yeah, yeah, that was That's what I remember him from.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
So he played himself, Yes, that's cool.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
He also had a guest spot on the Office in
the last season. Oh I didn't know that, Yeah, playing
himself again. Really, he was like the provider of the
cookies and snacks over.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
And lost their minds. He was the best gotten that
far in the show.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Have you Yeah, no, I you know what when When
Mike Scott left, I sort of bailed. I bailed to Yeah,
I said goodbye to the show, but Michael Scott did,
I didn't. I couldn't really get into it after that.
It was a little bit of a slog, but yeah,
it was weird. It was like, you know, it's missing
the star of the show. You know, it's like Roseanne.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
They found some footing as time went on, but it
was just never the same. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah, like McLean Stephen and left Mash Yes, you know,
you're like, that's why you never saw Mike Brady. If
Mike Brady left, the Brady Bunch done, absolutely done. And
and I couldn't get into it. After Michael Scott split,
I walked out the door with him. I felt sad
when I left too. Never really watched the end of
that series.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Could you watch the end of it, Steph Fosh, Oh yeah, yeah,
it was any good.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Yeah, I mean, like he said, it's a little bit,
it struggles a little bit, but the finale was really good.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
They did a good job with that. It was really
I saw a little bit of the finale that was good. Yeah, yeah,
I saw a little bit of that, all right, Famous
amos No longer with us man what a guy I
Relyve on KFI AM six.
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